Susan Kelechi Watson On Meta “This Is Us” Line In ‘The Residence’, Working With Both Andre Braugher & Giancarlo Esposito On Netflix Series

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For six seasons, viewers knew Susan Kelechi Watson as Beth Pearson, Randall’s (Sterling K. Brown) intelligent, unflappable and graceful wife.

In her followup TV role to This Is Us, Watson plays Jasmine Haney, the White House Deputy Usher and one of many suspects on the Netflix murder mystery series The Residence starring Uzo Aduba as a brilliant and eccentric detective assigned with solving the case.

As she testifies during a congressional hearing about the death of her boss, White House Chief Usher A.B. Wynter (Giancarlo Esposito), Haney utters the line, “This is us,” much to the delight of fans of the NBC family drama.

Because of the meta link, there was suspicion that the line may have been improvised. In an interview with Deadline, Watson explained whether the line was in the script, whether it was it intentional and how fun it was to say it. “It was in the script.